Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father’s side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics ...

Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Author Steve Almond has written about the struggles and pleasures of writing and "The Great Gatsby.

In Japan, Haruki Murakami is known not only as a bestselling and critically acclaimed author but also as a prolific ...

Ninety-nine years ago, Scribner Books published then 28-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel, The Great Gatsby. Set in the 1920s on Long Island, the book follows Nick Carraway. He witnesses a ...

A copy of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is displayed June 6, 2013 at Sotheby's in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images) The first review of “The Great Gatsby,” published a century ...

We know you’re busy wrapping holiday gifts, keeping the cat away from the Christmas tree and baking great-grandma’s sugar cookies. Take a break as we look ahead to Friends of the St. Paul Public ...

Famed author F. Scott Fitzgerald – whose best-known work “The Great Gatsby” was published 100 years ago – and his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, rented a modest house on Felder Street and moved in with ...

Beauty, privilege and love promise a perfect life, yet Fitzgerald shows how quickly illusion cracks when reality asks for ...

"'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'" That famous line was delivered by Jay Gatsby, the fictional protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," ...

There’s been a lot said on the book’s 100th anniversary. But there’s a lot to say. By Wesley Morris, Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel took over pop culture. By Michael ...

Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents suggest Fitzgerald may have behaved worse than he wrote. By Elisabetta ...